The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-28

dent it is the freedmen OF the South and those
eoiored men who have sought kindlier homes
under more hopeful auspices here in our own
and IN other Northern States. do not believe
there has been written in the history or any civ
llized nation a more abominable, cruel, wretched
page than that which describes the treatment of
the poor blacks in the South since those States
passed under Democratic control Why are
they not allowed to voteR Because they want to
vote the Republc ticket. In the last presi-
Dental election, and this one to come. our Dem
ocratic opponents count with absolute certainty
upon one hundred and ffty-three electoral votes
from the South. when say again there is not
man. not fool, who does not know that if every
qualified eector in three at least of those States
was allowed to express himself they would give
their electoral vote for the Republican nominee.
look again, and up here in the Northwest is a
fair Territory. enormous in extent the one-half
of il applying for admission to the Union
State, more than twice as large as the State OF
Indiana, having a population Of nearly a half
million of souls at this time, kept out of the
union of States; was kept out in 1884. will be
kept out and not allowed to cast electoral
vote in 1883. Why's Simply because a MAORI
ty of the people in that Territory Republic
period of my term in the Senate as a mem Der or
the committee on Territories fought with such
ability as / could, pleaded with such power as
Icoud with these Democratic Southern Senators
and member 10 allow these free people of Dako-
ia the common rights of American citizenship.
In 1854 placate, if could. their opposition to
@ clause '1'' in the bill that the con
stitutional convention should not assemble
until after the presidential election OF that year
i But four years more have gone around;
again President is to be elected, and still that
young State, peopied with the best blood of all
the States, full of the veterans of the late war,
loyal to the government and the Constitution,
ready to share the perils and burdens of our
national life, is being will be, kept out of the
Union, will be denied any right to cast an cleo
coral vote for President by the Democratic
House of Representatives, at Washington, solely
because a majority of her people hold the polit-
ical sentinen which we hold. All gen tlemen
N Dam ar WI in ON haH
other reasons why Dakota ought not to be ad-
mitted. gave to me the true one when he said,
t'Now. Harrison. you don't think we are such
- fools to let that Republican State into the
+. UnionP Who are these men who thus
stand and bar the way of that free
5onng State when she asks that her star
may be put upon this field of blue2 They are
tie men who sought to tear every star from
that azure field. They are the men who at
tempted fight their States out of the Union.
Having been restored by law to equal influence.
and having clothed themselves with added
power stolen from the colored voters of their
States. they now use that influence to bar out
State full of the Union veterans of the late war,
simply because they mean, at all hazards, by
all methods. however unfair, to maintain the
control thew have secured in national affairs.
They know that the condition of their success
next year is the suppression of the Republican
sote, and they accept that condition and are de-
of Indiana, is it not worth while, even thus
early, TO let hearts kiDdle and to put steel
into our nerves, gather once more to put
down a party that has by such means usurped
control of our Nation, and to re-establish free
manhood suffrage the country over! Great ap-
plause and cheers.
Well. that is not Gil, They have invaded In
diana. Not simply BY DISTINGUISHING fraction
of every Republican voter in it; not
simply by refusing to abide by cleo
ton for Lieutenant governor that they
had invited; but they have organized
tally sheet forgers to wipe out the votes that had
been cast, and once counted, in order to seat
men in office who were defeated at the polls. Is
not that true2 Come over to Indianapolis and
look at those tally sheets. have heard Demo
Gratis say almost everything else, but never
YET have heard one say that those tallies were
rubbed out and rewritten to the name of DEM
ocras without human agency. Laughter and
applause. In whose interest was it done2 In
the interest of the sure ally of the Democratic
party. the ally that brings it. and only
bring it. success-the Liquor League of Indiana.
. Applause What was the schemel To seat
man who was not elected. and who was totally
unfit. in the Office of judge of the Criminal
Court in order that these persistent and defiant
v1oators of public law might have there a man
who would sympathize with them. and would
make their punishment so light that they might
find profit in a continued defiance of law A Dem
ocrat1c county grand jury. with proof not only
sufficient to make up prime facia case in the
grand jury room, but proof beyond a reasonable
/. doubt from man VINO saw 1t done, refused to
indict; and when in the United States Court in
dictments had been found, every Democrat I
believe. the petit jury rallied TO the defense
of the tally forgers. One of them
reported to have said that he had not been in
the jury-box fifteen minutes until he caught
IL
convict some Democrats. Laughter and APP
plause.1 My Democratic friends. you have
much interest as have in an honest election. and
If you would clear your skirts of responsibility for
Z such transactions as these you must raise your
voice in condemnation of them mmittee
of hundred was raised to prosecute the
guilty parties, and while ordinarily it is pretty
easy to find Democrats who are willing to accept
any sort of office. it was very hard to find any
in Marion county who would take part in that
non-partsan citizens movement to suppress
fraud at the ballot. And what has been the
: fate of those Democrats who did accept places
the committee OF one hundred7 Denounced
abused, traduced from day to day by the Dem
ocratic organ at your capital city. Why's Be-
cause they lending themselves this
movement that promised to deplete the Demo
cratic party by putting some of its members in
the penitentiary. You recollect down at Gin
cinnati the attempt TO beat John Sherman by
bold and impudent forgeries of the election
turns. Who was il, too, at Chicago. that
: ganized the frauds against the ballot that
perperrated therel They all Democrats
have here a statement from a Democrat reat-
ing TO the Ohio frauds. but applicable in every
line of it to the Illinois and the Indiana election
frauds Listen to what Mr.. William p Ander-
son says
Mr.. Chairman--I desire to preface statement
about to AXE with few personal remarks
have voted the Democratic ticket for twenty
years. have always been Democrat, and at the last
election voted a straight Democratic ticket With
this record after thorough and impartial investga
member of the executive committee of the committee
of hundred, claim be able make fair state
in the frauds against the registration and election
laws and other outrages preceding and following the
last election These invest cations show that the
only organized fraud against registration and election
laws the last election has within the Demo
cratic party; that the only organization shielding and
protecting the perpetrators OF these frauds and
deavoring hinder and prosecute those engaged in
exposing them and bringing them to justice is also
within the Democratic party. Still Democrat, aud
Numerically opposed principles of the Repub
can party, this committee and its executive commit
tee have entire sympathy and my hearty support
So it is that by wholesale suppression of Re-
publican votes and infuAnce the South, by
excluding Dakota and Washington Territories
from their just participation in national af
fairs, by fraudulent apportionments. and by
ganized Systematic election frauds in the great
cities of country. the Democratic party
has acquired and seeks to maintain it's control
Now in saving this | want say just here that
] well know that there are hundreds of honest
Democrats who condemn and deprecate these